By:  Fraser                                           S.B. No. 1776
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the named insured on a workers' compensation policy.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 408.001, Labor Code is amended by adding
 1-4     the following:
 1-5           Sec. 408.001.  EXCLUSIVE REMEDY; EXEMPLARY DAMAGES.
 1-6           (a)  Recovery of workers' compensation benefits is the
 1-7     exclusive remedy of an employee covered by workers' compensation
 1-8     insurance coverage or a legal beneficiary against the employer, or
 1-9     the parent corporation, subsidiary corporation, or subsidiary of
1-10     the parent corporation of the employer, which are named insureds on
1-11     the same policy of workers' compensation insurance as the employer
1-12     or [an] their agents or employees [of the employer] for the death of or
1-13     a work related injury sustained by the employee.
1-14           SECTION 2.  This act takes effect on September 1, 1999, and
1-15     applies to a compensable injury that occurs on or after that date.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.